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These barbarians need to be treated like Nazi war crime tribunals. Firing squads for them all.

I find it unbelievable how many Reyes optimists there are, including nationally (ie. Mike Petriello). We just haven't seen anything beyond outfield depth out of him to date.... but he has a golden opportunity to prove it now. Hopefully he steps up.

Pinero aged out, like a member of Menudo

I love the headline: Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking it. GTFO you genocidal byotches.

Awesome

Interesting nugget: Ukrainian forces continue to root out Russian SOF in Kyiv. I guess they had their guys infiltrate the city before and during the "siege" and are still a nuisance.

yeah - Greene or Tork or one of the young pitchers may become a star, but for now it is ironic that Avila seems intent on going with the philosophy of "win with 9 good players" instead of 3 stars, 3 ordinary Joes and 3 bums. At some point I think we need to put to rest the persistent idea the what the Tigers did under Dombrowski was somehow all Al Avila except for Dave's trades. It seems at every point Al has attempted to run a completely different operation and build a very different type of team.

My comment was more tongue in cheek. I think at times people give Hinch way too much credit just like I thought people gave Ausmus too much criticism. Personally I don't think managers make that much of a difference.

Only if Hinch's managerial skills can enhance performance by 10 wins. It is certainly podssible that Hinch and the coaching can improve players significantly. I would look at player projections as a baseline and see which players you think can do better and add wins to the team total accordingly. Of course, if they do improve, we won't know whether they did it themselves or were aided by coaching. I think the only place where a manager can actually affect a team's win total without players actually improving is through bullpen management and I think that has a cap of maybe five games.

Can we put Baddoo in CF and use Haase in RF? Or move Grossman to RF and use Haase in LF?

These are well-considered thoughts, but it feels too much like we have become Cubs fans of old. The season hasn't even started and we're already chanting "Wait till next year!" Oh well.

Your post would majorly trigger the auto racing crowd. I would be impressed if they made them race thorough simulated Boston traffic at rush hour.

It took this long for a beat writer to come out with this info? I mean c'mon......

Billy Hamilton scales the wall like Bo Jackson. https://twitter.com/AshleyDavis32/status/1510108343389626371?s=20&t=lgV-jlYXlKbFh6VAXrXVKA

How did Cal Ripken never foul a ball off his foot and break it or get the flu or food poisoning? How did he never miss a day? Maybe my crazy right wing uncle is right about “the steal“ and about the “lizard people“ who live among us. Cal Ripkin was one of the lizard people. At least Riley Greene is not a lizard person. That’s the bright side. But I think he’s wrong about George Soros financing Tom Hanks’ and Oprah‘s magical high-speed child sex trafficking tunnels. I don’t think that’s true. So that’s another thing to be optimistic about.

Just how bad is OKC? It’s like the have Gustav Lindstrom defending their net.

Lmao! Lol at paying for this shit 😂

"Oh no! the Russians will escalate the war if it comes home to them!" My GOTT IN HIMMEL...

If only those kids from high school could see me now.....

Hoo boy.